How do you explain the "chicken poo" when people come to your door??

[CheerfulHeart2]

Well, we came up with something a little different. I had some bird netting that I used in the spring to cover the garden. They 6 hens were doing a good poop deposit on my patio and I was tired of it. The patio is covered so we hung the bird netting from the roof. It didn't quite cover the width, which was good, I do have to go through there several time a day. For the remaining 5-6 feet I moved 4 big planters into the gap, 2 on one end an 2 on the other. A doggie/child gate that I can easily get through is propped between the planters. It keeps them off the covered part of the patio anyway.

 

[joebryant]

I bought several rolls of 2-X4-inchX3-feet farm fencing, connected them together on the end, made them a free-standing fenced-in area. I did not use any posts, the wire holds itself up where it isn't held up by or connected with wire to trees along its way. Part of it's on grass and part of it is in the woods with lots of old leaves on the ground.

 

[StupidBird]

"I have an infestation / plague of 'Gallus gallus' or 'Gallus domesticus' and we haven't found an effective control yet.."

I love latin ...

 

[jwj]

My son who was in the Navy calls my patio the " poop deck".

 

[Cockadoodledon't]

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[Toast n Jelly]

I stand around all day with a hose in my hand and spray the poop off the patio and into the lawn

 

[ella]

Thanks for the apology Cheerful heart, that's sweet. No offence was taken.

 

[SquirrelGirl]

We were trying to sell our house with chicken poo everywhere!! Talk about embarassing!!

But we soon came up with a solution.. Latice around our porch and covered garage... Wooden fencing next to our shop! So the chickens have about an acre of land behind our shop all to themselves. It works out great.. no more nasty poo poo!

I highly recomend Latice.. not as expensive as wooden fencing and looks pretty decorative!

 

[DawnSuiter]

Ours like to hang out on the porch too.

THE broom!!! This is what I chase them away from the porch with and then soon they avoid it even when it's just standing there, well most of them do.

But mostly, we keep the broom, and a brush and a squirt bottle handy right by the door. A quick swipe out into the grass, & squirt of solution & quick brushing deals with all of it. The walkway gets hosed or swept off regularly.

I also recommend staying out of the grass at my house

 

[calicokat]

Unfortunately, the dog eats the poop - so, not much poop problem, but stinky dog breath in bed each night

what's funny is, I've been reading about dog behavior trying to get this to stop. "they" (the smart dog people?) reccomend putting something in the food so the poop will be distasteful . . . . . . . what? By it's very nature isn't poop already distasteful?

Well, yeah theoretically, but apparently my dog didn't get that memo!